Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 7'


Why has Martellini driven all night long in a wreck of a car towards the border? Who is the man she has an appointment with in front of a rest stop snack bar and who will hand her over a package full of "toys"? The questions multiply as Martellini meets a certain Paradiso at the counter of the bar, a mysterious and strange figure who speaks with words that mix past, present, and future in a seemingly anarchistic way. Their dialogue is a game whose rules are fleeting, where nothing is the same as it may seem. Is the fact that the two of them are there in that timeless place lust a coincidence? Who is Paradiso a smuggler, a visionary, a political exile? Or only an old friend whose head is full of grandiose ideas? In the end, the two characters unveil their real personalities and the special nature of the bond that unites theni.

Biography

film director

Giovanni Gebbia

Giovanni Gebbia (Turin, 1963) has worked as a steadycam operator for more than thirty feature films, including Io sono qui (Liliana Cavani, 1993), Con gli occhi chiusi (Francesca Archibugi, 1994), Io ballo da sola (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1995), Vesna va veloce (Carlo Mazzacurati, 1995), Nirvana (Gabriele Salvatores, 1996), Ovosodo (Paolo Virzì, 1997). He has also directed three short films and a commercial.

FILMOGRAFIA

Walking Shoes (1986), Motomondiale (co-regia Paolo Favaro, 1990), Primi sospetti (co-regia Paolo Favaro e Isabella Maria, 1992), Borderline (1997).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Giovanni Gebbia.
Screenplay: Isabella Maria, Giovanni Gebbia.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi, Claudio Meloni.
Art director: Chiara Ambrosini.
Music: Emanuele Cisi.
Sound: Paolo Favaro, Carlos Bonuado.
Cast: Antonio Catania, Francesca Vettori, Nanni Tormen, Vanessa Giuliani, Alessandro Casale.
Production company and Italian distribution: Index S.C.R.L., via Moris 6, 10122 Torino, tel. +390114367612, fax +39011436627, E-mail indexfr@imbox.tin.it.
Co-production: Binario, c/o Isabella Maria, corso Vinzaglio 29, 10121 Torino, tel. +39-011540786.
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